Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Why China is losing the microchip war" video.

  1. Well, there's Fiserv, United Health, Protor & Gamble, Merck and others.
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  2. Taiwan getting into semiconductors is largely an historic accident since the country industrialized right at the start of the technology boom and there were government subsidies to get Taiwan into modern industries. Those days are over, though
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  3. @elfrjz A lot of people don't know who they are. Like how most US fast food franchises are run by the Yum corporation
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  4.  @johnmcgill3603  There's no particular reason why chip factories can't be made elsewhere and the demand for chips is likely to rise, meaning while Taiwan will keep making chips they won't have such a leading role. It's like how Wichita was the airplane capital of the world for a couple decades, but after a while Kansas aerospace grew slowly while it exploded across the US
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  5. @@liy5840 This goon doesn't know this stuff was largely invented in the US... The US has chip factories, they're just Taiwan's specialty for the past couple decades.
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  6.  @genuinennessbefitting4734  You do realize a big chunk of the Taiwanese companies are US owned, right?
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  7. Cold War never really ended in the far east
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  8. It's about how a momentary shortage made politicians fixate on it for a moment so now no one will shut up about it.
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  9.  @KICK839  No one else either.
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  10. There's no difference
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  11.  @johnmcgill3603  You don't think there are hundreds of places that fit that description?
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  12. Not if you know anything
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  13.  @brodoxl  China does more of its trade with the US than the whole of Europe combined. Just because a number of EU states don't do what you want, doesn't mean they're on the other team
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  14.  @queen_elizabeth  The US owns half the planet and UnitedHealth has hundreds of subsidiaries all over the world.
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  15. China fails. They can't even keep the crops growing without outside help
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  16. Because they lack the funding and expertise and they all really want a get-rich-quick scheme, not actual productivity.
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  17. That doesn't mean making chips isn't big business. It's what military planners call "strategic materials," like farmland, aluminum, uranium and so forth
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  18. State sponsored piracy in China. One of the big rackets is outside companies are brought into China with falsified GDP data, required to let Chinese businessmen control the Chinese branch, required to surrender patents to their partners or the government, and then all the above builds knockoff versions at the foreign company's expense. Likewise, Chinese firms are encouraged to bring in outside investors, and outsiders are not allowed to audit the books. And since the state owns a lot of for-profit ventures, sometimes they skip the middleman and the Minister of State Security simply steals foreign tech and gives it to their own firms.
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  19. Found the Urdu pirate.
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